Wamda

Lebanon

Digital Transformation Middle East 2017

The Digital Transformation Middle East 2017 conference will be taking place at the American University of Beirut on September...

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Global

New startups on the block: September

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to watch. Blink Egypt Development...

Startup List news AI

Regional

Alfanar brings venture philanthropy to the Middle East

Alfanar is an Arab venture philanthropy that seeks to empower social entrepreneurs that are making a difference in the region. This...

philanthropy Social Entrepreneurship VC

Lebanon

Innovate Education

Innovate Education is a 3-day social entrepreneurship competition. In this competition, Lebanese and Syrian university students will...

Education refugees Technology

U.A.E

Minds on a Mission gets Emirati students thinking

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn” were the wise words from Benjamin Franklin that inspired the win...

minds on a mission uae MBZFutureGen

Jordan

Edtech gives hope to a generation without schooling

Over 200 people gathered last week in Amman with a goal of digitalizing education to better reach the 750,000 Syrian refugee children out...

EdTech Education No Lost Generation Edtech Summit

Jordan

2017 NLG EdTech Summit

The 2017 NLG Edtech Summit is a forum where edtech innovations and projects from the region that support children most impacted by the...

syria refugees EdTech

Egypt

Education startups begin to break through in Egypt

Conservative dress codes hid a highly progressive approach to education during a meeting in Giza during November last year, which was...

self-directed education Egyptian Network for Self-Directed Education Tyro

Global

Stevens Initiative Award Competition

The Stevens Initiative is an international effort to expand access to virtual exchange in order to build global competence for young...

competition MENA Education

Jordan

Hello World Kids teaches programming in Jordanian schools

After Hanan Khader travelled to Silicon Valley in 2013 to represent her Jordanian company Aqar-Estate as part of the TechWomen program, she...

Hello World Kids Jordan Hanan Khader

Regional

Using tech to reverse wealth inequality

The increasing pace of technological evolution is causing serious concerns about its impact on wealth inequality and creating...

Wealth wealth inequality The Little Engineer

Syria

10 tech ideas to prevent a lost Syrian generation

“Between two million and three million Syrian children are not attending school. The UN children’s agency says the...

Social Entrepreneurship syria Education

Regional

Making the best of a child’s addiction

In the 90s, parents hid Gameboys from their children on high shelves and under heavy mattresses. This year, with face-to-screen time at...

Play My Way children Education

Syria

Wikilogia: The Syrian NGO that brought open source learning to Damascus

As the nearly six year war raged on in Syria, hundreds of entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts were quietly thriving in Damascus. They are...

syria Wikilogia Education

Syria

Code your way up: Syrian startups teach code in Arabic

As millions of Syrians fleeing a brutal war struggle to integrate into new countries, one barrier stands out above the rest:...

Remmaz bitcode Education

Regional

One month of free courses from Potential and Wamda

Being an entrepreneur isn't easy. Luckily there are many educational resources online to learn from. Wamda and Potential are...

Potential courses Education

Regional

Building a regional education platform: The Coding Circle [Q&A]

Coding is the future. (Images via The Coding Circle) Launched in Dubai in 2014, The Coding Circle is a tech and coding education...

Coding Circle Q&A Coding

Qatar

Looking to build an ecosystem, Qatar Foundation

“I met with a Jordanian minister a few years ago and he told me that he wanted the country to have 10,000 PhDs in the next few years,...

ARC'16 Qatar Foundation techwadi

Jordan

Jordan ed-tech startup secures deal with UNRWA

The EDaura team. Founder and CEO Nidal Khalifeh at far left, cofounder Muneer Saifi third from left, standing. (Image via Samuel...

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Saudi Arabia

Ed-tech to the rescue of Saudi Arabia's schools

Saudi Arabia’s education system has many problems. Despite the government allocating 25 percent of its $229 billion budget to education in ...

Alhodhud iRehab Masmoo3

Regional

Nadrus makes MOOCs Arabic-friendly

The Nadrus team in Turkey, during a training session. (Images via Nadrus) MOOCs, or massive open online courses, are by their very nature...

Nadrus MOOCs Dubai

U.A.E

The pursuit of ‘appy-ness’

Founder Dinesh Lalvani with some of his characters. (Images via AppyKids) Before becoming the Samsung Galaxy Tab regional ambassador for...

AppyKids samsung edutainment

Maghreb

Tunisian incubator Esprit aims to turn engineers into entrepreneurs

The first promotion of engineers-entrepreneurs presented health and safety-related startups at Esprit's demo day. (Images via Esprit) If...

Esprit engineering school

Egypt

Hack4Egypt tackles the big issues

Mentor Tarek Amin, digital group head for Adline Media Network, offers some advice. (Images via Hacka Mena) Hack4Egypt is a chance to...

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